The goal of the study was to assess the farmers’ acceptance of three sustainable production strategies, namely ‘Agro-forestry’, ‘Alternative protein source’ and ‘Prolonged maternal feeding’. Data on the acceptance of these strategies were collected by a survey of dairy farmers in six EU countries (AT, BE, DK, FI, IT, UK). An extended version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was applied ...

In a recently published fMRI study (Dauvermann et al., 2013), nonlinear dynamic causal modeling (DCM) was used to examine condition-specific effective connectivity in subjects at high genetic risk of schizophrenia. The authors concluded that nonlinear DCM could lead to new insights in the development of psychotic symptoms and functional and effective dysconnection at the network level in subjec...

Theminimization of risk functions is becoming a very important topic due to its interesting applications in Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Mathematics. This paper addresses this issue in a general framework. Many types of risk function may be involved. A general representation theorem of risk functions is used in order to transform the initial optimization problem into an equivalent one tha...

Introduction By means of formal citation analysis, although scientific impact of research was measured, so far other influential aspects of research such as readership and educational impact was simply ignored. Now online reference management tools such as Mendeley allow creating collections of digital paper holdings, and collaborative filtering of scientific publications, whose data proved to ...

METHODS: We assessed trajectories of CVRF in 2456 individuals with incident AF and 6414 matched control subjects. Subsequently, we determined the association of CVRF trajectories with the incidence of AF among 10 559 AF-free individuals (mean age, 67 years; 52% men; 20% blacks). Risk factors were measured during 5 examinations between 1987 and 2013. Cardiovascular events, including incident AF,...

Open angle glaucoma (OAG) necessitating surgery has traditionally been treated with filtering procedures using antifibrotics. Unfortunately, such filtering procedures are not without the risk of postsurgical complications. Increasing interest in blebless surgery has led to innovative surgical procedures aimed at rejuvenating the natural trabeculo canalicular outflow pathway. Circumferential cat...

1 L to lottery 2 L when the probability that 1 L delivers a better outcome than 2 L is higher than the probability that 2 L delivers a better outcome than 1 L . Such a preference can be rationalized by three standard axioms (completeness, continuity and first order stochastic dominance) and two less standard ones (weak independence and a fanning-in). A preference for the most probable winner ca...

In this work we seek to construct collusion-resistant traitor tracing systems with small ciphertexts from standard assumptions that also move toward practical efficiency. In our approach we will hold steadfast to the principle of collusion resistance, but relax the requirement on catching a traitor from a successful decoding algorithm. We define a f -risky traitor tracing system as one where th...

METHODS: We assessed trajectories of CVRF in 2456 individuals with incident AF and 6414 matched control subjects. Subsequently, we determined the association of CVRF trajectories with the incidence of AF among 10 559 AF-free individuals (mean age, 67 years; 52% men; 20% blacks). Risk factors were measured during 5 examinations between 1987 and 2013. Cardiovascular events, including incident AF,...

Strategic networks such as Collaborative Networked Organisations (CNOs) and Virtual Customer Communities (VCCs) show a high potential as drivers of value co-creation and collaborative innovation in today’s Networking Era. Both look at the network structures as a source of jointly value creation and open innovation through access to new skills, knowledge, markets and technologies by sharing risk...